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Jens Rennstam
Senior lecturer, Director of third cycle studies, Department of Business Administration
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Show and tell
Author
Editor
- Olof Hallonsten
- Anna Jonsson
- Jens Rennstam
- Nadja Sörgärde
Summary, in English
“Show, don’t tell” is common advice for writers of fiction. This advice is meant to encourage authors to illustrate rather than to directly state information about environments and feelings. For instance, instead of writing “she was angry,” they would write “she left the room with steady steps and slammed the door behind her,” which illustrates anger.
When supervising students, I use this advice and the analogy to fiction writing, albeit in an altered version: “show and tell.”
When supervising students, I use this advice and the analogy to fiction writing, albeit in an altered version: “show and tell.”
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
- Organizational Studies
Publishing year
2024
Language
English
Pages
63-68
Publication/Series
Metaphors we supervise by
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Studentlitteratur AB
Topic
- Information Studies
Keywords
- method
- analysis
- qualitative method
- writing
Status
Published
Project
- Metaphors we supervise by
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9789144184197